Former Florida Activist whose Camera was Confiscated Prepares for Trial

James Cox, a tireless activist whom I met a couple of times in Miami, was arrested last month for video recording an altercation between police and his friend inside a Florida courtroom.

His friend, Chris, was demanding a jury trial over a red light traffic ticket he received, citing the Seventh Amendment that states the following:

“In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

But the judge said the Seventh Amendment only applied to criminal cases.

Chris continued questioning the judge, which is when three cops approached him.

One of the officers grabbed Chris, twisted his arm up his back, and then proceeded to force him out of the courtroom through two sets of doors face first, across a corridor and into a plate glass window.

I followed behind and when I was out of the courtroom I switched on my video camera and started to record the assault.

I was told by one of the officers that there was no filming in the court.

After the cops dragged Chris from the courtroom, Cox continued to follow behind with his camera.

The cops then snatched the camera out of Cox’s hands before placing him in handcuffs.

Cox and Chris both spend the night in jail.

Cox was charted with resisting arrest, which is the usual in Florida when all you’ve done is display contempt of cop.

I am immersed in a legal case where I not only want to clear my criminal charges stemming from my arrest in January, but I want to sue the Miami-Dade Police Department for deleting my footage, which I was able to recover.

My goal is to set some type of precedent to ensure this does not happen as often as it does today where cops simply get away with it.

So if you would like to contribute, please click on the “donate” button below and contribute whatever you can afford.

Also, in an unrelated PINAC matter, I recently went through a hair transplant operation and I’m documenting my recovery on this blog if you are interested. I did not pay for this transplant, which is why I’m promoting the doctor through the hair transplant blog.

James Cox, a tireless activist whom I met a couple of times in Miami, was arrested last month for video recording an altercation between police and his friend inside a Florida courtroom.

His friend, Chris, was demanding a jury trial over a red light traffic ticket he received, citing the Seventh Amendment that states the following:

“In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

But the judge said the Seventh Amendment only applied to criminal cases.

Chris continued questioning the judge, which is when three cops approached him.

One of the officers grabbed Chris, twisted his arm up his back, and then proceeded to force him out of the courtroom through two sets of doors face first, across a corridor and into a plate glass window.

I followed behind and when I was out of the courtroom I switched on my video camera and started to record the assault.

I was told by one of the officers that there was no filming in the court.

After the cops dragged Chris from the courtroom, Cox continued to follow behind with his camera.

The cops then snatched the camera out of Cox’s hands before placing him in handcuffs.

Cox and Chris both spend the night in jail.

Cox was charted with resisting arrest, which is the usual in Florida when all you’ve done is display contempt of cop.

I am immersed in a legal case where I not only want to clear my criminal charges stemming from my arrest in January, but I want to sue the Miami-Dade Police Department for deleting my footage, which I was able to recover.

My goal is to set some type of precedent to ensure this does not happen as often as it does today where cops simply get away with it.

So if you would like to contribute, please click on the “donate” button below and contribute whatever you can afford.

Also, in an unrelated PINAC matter, I recently went through a hair transplant operation and I’m documenting my recovery on this blog if you are interested. I did not pay for this transplant, which is why I’m promoting the doctor through the hair transplant blog.

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